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PASSENGER DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS 



SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY 

J. C. STUBBS, Third Vice-President San Francisco, Cal. 

K. HAWLEY, Assistant General Traffic Manager New York, N. Y. 

E. O. McCORMICK, Passenger Traffic Manager San Francisco, Cal. 

PACIFIC SYSTEM 

T. H. GOODMAN, General Passenger Agent ... : San Francisco, Cal. 

R. A. DONALDSON, Assistant General Passenger Agent.. San Francisco, Cal 

J AS. HORSBURGH, Jr., Assistant General Pass. Agent ban Francisco, Cai. 

H. R. JUDAH, Assistant General Passenger Agent San Francisco, Cal. 

G. W. LUCE, Assistant General Passenger Agent Los Angeles, Cal. 



A FEW AGENCIES 

IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 

G. W. LUCK, Asst. Gen. Pass Agent, 261 South Spring St... Los Angeles 
C. SEYLER, Agent at Depots Los Angeles 

F. M. FRYE, Commercial Agent San Diego 

G. T. FORSYTH, Commercial Agent Santa Barbara 

K. SHILLINGSBURG, Agent San Buenaventura 

I. N. TODD, Commercial Agent Pasadena 

B. F. COONS, Commercial Agent Riverside 

C. H. EATON, Agent Redlands 

D. A. BRUCE, Agent Colton 

F. DONNATIN, Agent San Bernardino 

E. T. MCNEILL, Agent Ontario 

G. P. BARNETT, Agent ...Pomona 

J. R. GRAY, Commercial Agent , Covina 

A. W. REESE, Agent Monrovia 

L. O. BREEDEN, Agent Santa Ana 

T. A. DARLING, Agent Anaheim 

F. A. CROWE, Agent.. Long Beach 

D. B. SCHENCK, Agent Whittier 

A. W. MCPHERSON, Agent Santa Monica 

IN THE EA.ST 

L. H. NUTTING, Eastern Passenger Agent, 349 Broadway.. New York 
W. G. NEIMYER, Gen. West'n Pass. Agent, 238 So. Clark St.. Chicago, 111. 

E. E. CURRIER, New England Age*~t, 9 State St Boston, Mass. 

IN EUROPE 

RUD FALCK, General European Passenger Agent 

Antwerp, Belgium, n Rue Chapelle de Grace; Hamburg, Germany, 
6-8 Kaarlsburg ; Live pool, England, 25 Water Street ; London, Eng- 
land, 49 Leadenhall Street, 18 Cockspur Street; Rotterdam, Nether- 
lands, 92 Wynhaven, S. S. 

Descriptive literature regarding the territory traversed by the 
Southern Pacific Company, and information concerning tickets, 
routes of travel, sleeping car accommodations, etc., can be 
obtained on application by letter or in person to any agent of the 
Southern Pacific Company. 

FIFTH EDITION) 

■p. 

Author. 3 $ 'Of 



From the Mission Tower* 



SOUTH of Point Concepcion on the coast of California, a 
range of wooded mountains follows the inland turn of the 
shore a little way and then off to the east from the ocean 
meets another link in a mountain chain that, with other ranges 
curving to the south, forms a circular mountain wall with its 
ends neighboring the Pacific. Rugged, steep, and high in the 
interior, and reaching its climax in snow-capped peaks a hundred 

miles, perhaps, to the 
east of the sea as a 
beam of the setting sun 
travels, this wall is ir- 
regular, broken and 
twisted; here venture- 
some mountain spurs 
make inroads on the 
valley, there the lower 
country encroaches 
upon the domain' of the 
hills with flaring val- 
leys or narrow passes. 
High ridges sink into 
lower slopes where ra- 
vines lie, and at meas- 
ured intervals the sen- 
tinel peaks of Mt. 
Pinos, Mt. Wilson, Mt. 
San Antonio, Straw- 
berry Peak, Mt. San 
Bernardino, Mt. San 
Gorgonio and Mt. San 
Jacinto stand guard. 
Between these mountains and the ocean the country slopes 
gently, little rounded hills in series and in groups making pre- 
tentious efforts to create valleys of their own, the broad beds, 
" washes," of shallow water courses with the broader neighbor- 
ing mesas varying the landscape. 

The shore line curves inward between Point Concepcion 
and San Diego, and a line of summer isles reaching southward 
from the point protects the peaceful waters along the south coast. 
This is the land best known as Southern California. 
It is a country of eternal snow — on mountain peaks 12,000 
feet high; it is a country of eternal summer — in the smiling val- 
leys radiant with perennial beauty. It is a land of roses, fra- 
grant, beautiful; it is, too, a land of unbaked Boston beans. It is 
a land of ostriches, and, still more, a land of humming birds. 
Meadow larks unnumbered hail the morning from the upland 
grain fields; and at night in the fastnesses of the mountains yet 




may be heard the mountain lion. In the late winter and 
the early spring the valleys are a carpet of baby blue-eyes; 
and up on the higher mountain ridges, usually over the sum- 
mits to the desert sides, majestic pines, too large for the saw- 
mill, lift their heads so high that their vesper songs, when the 
evening sea breeze comes, are lost. Southern California is a 
land of celery, for celery flourishes in the lowlands south of Los 
Angeles, and it is a land of salt to season that celery with, for 
out on the Colorado desert broad acres glisten in the sun at a 
lower level still — 200 feet below the surging tide of the ocean. 
It is preeminently a land of magnificent sandy sea beaches, with 
gentle surf; it is not less preeminently a country of mountain 
resorts, with sparkling trout streams and pine needle carpets. 
It is a land of long ocean piers and high oil derricks. It is a 
land of many pumpkins to the acre and of many magnificent re- 
sort hotels. It possesses the most modern and active of cities 
and some quaint and sleepy Spanish pueblos. It has many mineral 
hot springs and twice a hundred more cool artesian wells, some 
of 400 inches flow. There are broad fields of waving grain and 
fleets of fishing boats. There is a vast network of irrigating 
canals and another network of many well-kept country highways. 
It is a land of sweetness, with many thousand acres of sugar beets 
and three large factories; and with every valley fringed with hon- 
ey, for along the foothills and in the mouths of canons the hum of 
industry is apparent around many a hive. Large vineyards and 
canaigre fields neighbor amicably. Yes, it is a land 61 many 
things — of gold and silver, small fruits, vegetables, flowers, wool, 
wheat, hay, cattle, cranberries, walnuts, almonds, melons, wine, of 
tourists and of climate. 

But for the moment passing by the climate, Southern Califor- 
nia is above all a land of horticulture; of oranges, lemons, grape- 
fruit, apricots, peaches, pears, olives, prunes, quinces, guavas, 
bananas, loquats, nectarines, pomegranates, cherries, plums. In 
a few years, when the young orchards begin to bear, the 15,000 
carloads of fruits of this season will be trebled. 

The climate possesses an annual mean temperature of about 
62 , and there is nothing very mean about it either; indeed, it is 
about right; in the dry air of the summer (but not at the coast) it 
wanders up to nearly a hundred degrees, with a much lower sensible 
temperature; in the winter it draws the line at frosts as a whole, 
though in a few localities the welcome is not so warm as to forbid 
Jack Frost from tarrying a few hours. The climate rejoices in 
300 sunshiny days every year; it invites you to midsummer nights 
beneath clear stars and open windows in the longer stretches of 
January darkness when the rose-scented air aids to pleasant 
dreams. It has a fraternal feeling for porches, swinging on the 
gate, long walks, bicycling and coaching. The genial moon that 
climbs up over the shoulder of the high mountain, shedding a sil- 
very light upon stretches of dark green foliage and reaches of 



white sands, smiles on many a delightful excursion and listens 
often to the echo of the tally-ho. The summer days, clear and 
still, watched by the cool sea breezes of the ocean that come gently 
in, if the thermometer dare but to aspire to unusual height, are in 
the larger part of the country very pleasant indeed; the renown of 
the winter days has made the land one vast resort. 

There is no monotony in Southern California, but an alterna- 
tion of sunlight and shadow everywhere. 

44 Hills peep o'er hills and Alps on Alps arise," 
and yet the valleys are neither narrow nor confining, often fifteen 
miles across from foothills to foothills, and broadening out nea* 
the ocean in great stretches of level land. 
This is California south of Tehachapi. 

In its compass Dame Nature has scattered health and pleas- 
ure resorts lavishly — in the pudding is no lack of plums. By 
the ocean, coast and island resorts are attractive the year round; 
in the summer, mountain retreats in both the canons and in the 
little valleys on the ridge tops, are numbered by the hundreds. 
Mineral springs are numerous and health-restoring. Deer, bear, 
wild cats, mountain quail, pigeons and gray squirrels in the moun- 
tains; and in the valleys and foothills, valley quail, jack-rabbits, 
cottontails and blue rabbits, and in the marshes and on lakes and 
reservoirs, wild fowl in variety and abundance, offer an inviting 
field to Nimrods; the many excellent mountain trout streams and 
the sea fishing between the islands and the coast make merry mu- 
sic with the reel. 

In seeing Southern California, any of several points will prove 

satisfactory headquarters, but to the ma- 
jority of visitors Los Angeles and its 
seaside and foothill suburbs offer 
perhaps the greatest advantages 
as starting points. 

A geographical division is 
made of the pleasure, and in 
the following pages the ob- 
server is taken from one point 
^^ to another in the order that 

best will utilize the compre- 
hensive local train service 
of the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany. The order of the trip 
may be varied to suit personal 
convenience or the wishes 
of resident friends; but 
omit nothing. Do not lay 
down the story unfinished. 
In the back of the book 
are the Statistics for the 
" figure heads." 





LOS ANGELES* 




ARCADE DEPOT— LOS ANGELES. 



Ancient Rome was a wonderful city, built on hills and among 
its contemporaries remarkable for its municipal improvements 
and its public spirit. Los Angeles is partly built on hills, on more 
i nQ a Mr pi P<s k^ s tnan Rome ever knew, and it is rightly 
LOS ANCihLbS p rou d f its improvements and its standing 
among its contemporaries. There the comparison ends, for a res- 
ident of Los Angeles, accustomed to its conveniences and attrac- 
tions, could, if translated, spend scarcely a comfortable day and 
night in ancient Rome, and very likely would be found laying out 
a new town on the right side of the Tiber the next morning. 

There are 115,000 people in the limits of Los Angeles, and of 
these some 100,000 have come through the city's gates with their 
lares and penates since 1880, or have been lucky enough to have 
been born there since that date. Built in the span of a child's life, 
the city has a more modern appearance than that of any other 
metropolis in the world — it is representative of all the great im- 
provements in civic architecture in the last decade. An unusually 
high level of intelligence and great wealth have joined its wonder- 
ful growth to make a result worthy of pride. The Los Angeles of 
the older days is like the fragment of a half-forgotten dream — the 
Plaza, the Mission Church, the remnants of Sonora town or the 
quaint home of some old-time dignitary, serve to stir the imagina- 
tion and to remind the visitor that here half a century ago another 
civilization existed; but in the Los Angeles of to-day the pueblo 
plays no part, and the sound of the Angelus is lost in the city's 
roar. 

Los Angeles is a city of commanding views; it sweeps down 
from the heights toward the ocean and the setting sun. From a 
thousand vantage points vast panoramas of landscape, of moun- 
tain, ocean and valley delight the eye. It is a city perfumed with 
roses; it is garlanded everywhere with flowers thriving in peren- 
nial beauty; and miles upon miles of paved boulevards, in far- 
reaching level vistas, over-arched with the bending branches of 




A GLIMPSE OF WESTLAEB PARK, LOS ANGELES. 

protecting trees, or winding through canons, along bold brows of 
the hills or over the ridge tops, are endless invitations to travel. 

The palm, magnolia, pepper, eucalyptus, acacia, china berry, 
grevilla, catalpa, umbrella tree, and the endless cypress, and many 
of the trees familiar in the East as favorites furnishing drive-way 
shadow, are everywhere. Broad-leafed bananas, mammoth cen- 
tury plants, tree geraniums and housetop-reaching roses give the 
city a semi-tropic, gala-day appearance. 

A veritable park itself, the city has numerous well-kept pleas- 
ure grounds, of which the best improved are Westlake, Eastlake 
and Elysian Parks. Up in the hills, Griffith Park, a natural scenic 
land of 3000 acres, possesses wonderful possibilities, and in a few 
years will become the city's greatest attraction. Indeed, before 
long, with the aid of the semi-tropic climate, these parks will all 
present a beauty now beyond comprehension. 

The business streets of the city are of unusually impressive 
appearance. This is partly due to its growing and active life, 
partly to the excellent character of its paved streets, partly to the 
complete intramural car service that has grown beyond the origi- 
nal plans and stretches now from mountains to the sea, but chiefly, 
perhaps, to the substantial yet graceful stone and brick business 
blocks that house the city's commercial life. In the business 
streets, as in the residence section, there is no lack of color; 
there is no monotonous somber tinge dulling the attractions of 
Los Angeles to the eye; it is vividly, happily artistic, and over it 



all the glad air of freshness; the very plate glass windows and the 
polished signs of brass reflect the city's pride even in details. 

There is no huddling of people in the residence parts of the 
city. The attractions that Nature gives to every foot of ground 
make irresistible the demand for space, evident in the fine homes 
with spacious lawns ever green, countless trees, gravelled drive- 
ways, and embowered with the luxuriance of the flowers of sun- 
land. The street-car facilities make the spreading of the city con- 
venient, 125 miles of electric lines reaching all parts, the hills, the 
Los Angeles River from which the water is largely stolen " at 
the canon's mouth " proving no barrier. 

In a public way Los Angeles is leadingly progressive. With- 
in the last few years all down-town electric, telephone and tele- 
graph lines have been placed in underground conduits, electric 
energy to the extent of 40,000 horse-power has been introduced 
from the mountains, even as far as seventy miles away; suburbs 
have been annexed, over 200 miles of street have been paved and 
graded, thirty-three miles of sidewalk laid, and several new parks 
added to the list. The sewer system is complete with 150 miles of 
main and an outfall to the ocean. Inter-communication has been 
bettered by the finishing of the Third street and Broadway tun- 





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IN THE "LIQUID FUEL" SECTION. 
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nels. It is not " over the hills to the poorhouse " in Los Angeles, 
but through the hills to ease and luxury, and a life full of great 
possibilities. 

A glance at the map will show the advantages of Los Angeles 
as a railroad center. No other city in America has within easy 
access more delightful resorts, or of such variety. Mountains, 
valleys and ocean, summer and winter, vie with one another. 

The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, with over iooo 
members, neglects no project of public importance. It occupies 
the second and third floors of the Chamber of Commerce Build- 
ing, on the corner of Fourth and Broadway, and here maintains 
a striking: display of the products of California, South of Teha- 
chapi. Visitors are cordially welcomed. The schools and school- 
houses of Los Angeles are abreast of the city, and that is saying 
much. The high school is worth a glance from anybody's camera 
and the State Normal School, set superbly high on a hill, is an in- 
stitution that the State may well be proud of. The University of 
Southern California and numerous private schools, both secular 
and religious, are factors in the city's educational life. Nor less 
so is the public library, seemingly patronized by the entire popu- 
lation, in the City Hall. The Court House, surrounded by North 
Broadway, Temple, Franklin and New High streets, is a magnifi 
cent structure magnificently located. 

The great advantages which Southern California possesses in 
being an all-year resort and a wonderful business community be- 
sides, make excellent accommodations at moderate charges, a pos- 
sibility which is fully realized in Los Angeles. The hotels, a 
partial list of which appears in the back of the book, have all the 
comforts and luxuries of modern invention, and are accustomed 
to ministering to the most fastidious taste. The theaters are en- 
abled by their excellent patronage .to secure every first-class at- 
traction that will leave the East. Los Angeles, too, is a city of 
churches, just as it is a city of homes, and on a Sunday morn you 
may hear the church bells ringing from hill top to the level, and 
see the city's avenues filled with a great concourse of people called 
to worship. l 

Standing at some high vantage point and looking down upon 
thiscity smiling in the sunlight, and then with sweeping view fol- 
lowing the Sierra Madre mountains that rise into the lighter blue 
of the sky, around the undulating plain that sinks into the ocean 
fifteen miles away, one does not wonder that from all over the 
world so many intelligent people have in the past few years 
knocked at the city gates of Los Angeles. 

It needs not the eye of a prophet to see here fifty years hence 
a vast commercial center which, with rapid transit lines reaching 
in every direction to coast, mountain and valley, will be the nu- 
cleus of a city, unique, homelike and beautiful — a city of five and 
ten acre homes that shall stretch uninterruptedly from the moun- 
tains to the sea. 

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PASADENA ORANGE TREES— " OF AGE." 

Los Angeles to Pasadena* 

THE suburbs of Los Angeles are not less pleasant than the city 
itself, and possess individual excellencies that are ample 
argument for their existence. Chief of these is Pasadena, 
far-famed crown of the valley. With uptown station at each end, 
the eight fast trains each way, of the Southern Pacific Company, 
take care of a large share of the travel between the two cities. The 
rest is looked after by two other steam roads and an electric rail- 
way. 

Starting from the business center of Los Angeles and cross- 
ing the river of that name, we soon leave the bluffs behind after a 
glimpse of the manufacturing industries of the city, and in a few 
minutes reach Shorb, in a widening valley, seven miles east of the 
metropolis, and the center of a highly cultivated valley floor. 

p The finest tower and block signal system in the West 
-bnOKB nere protects the large converging traffic from the In- 
side Track, Pasadena and Monrovia branches. From Shorb to 
Los Angeles is a double track. Here is the largest vineyard of 
Southern California, one of the largest wineries, and the Convent 
of the Holy Name. Pasadena passengers, not changing cars, 
proceed onward through the upland to the city in the foothills. 

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SOUTH 
PASADENA 

(Garfield Ave.) 



South Pasadena is prosperous, proud of a fine 
park and increasing population. It is chiefly fa- 
mous for ostrich farms, where 300 birds of the 
commercial feather flock together. Admission 25 
cents. 

Passengers leave the train in an artistic station in the heart of 
the city. Pasadena claims greatest excellence as a residence city. 
It typifies the ideals of the leisure class of refined people seeking 
winter homes. Nine miles from Los Angeles, in the 
PASADENA wes tern end of the San Gabriel valley, it has the 
conveniences of the city, the attractions of the country, the resorts 
of the seaside, the glories of the mountains, within easy reach. 
Dame Nature spent a good deal of considerate thought on this 
town, gave it a perfect climate and an unexcelled location, and 
placed near at hand a fine water supply in mountain streams and 
subterranean reservoirs. Then I guess Dame Nature must have 
smilingly waited for man to come along and " discover " Pasa- 
dena. Man came by and by, and since has lavished all the im- 
provement that brains and money can command upon the ground 
floor of Nature. 

The residences, set in miniature parks, exhaust adjectives of 
delight. Only the wonderful drives through blooming orchards, 




MARENGO AVENUE, PASADENA. 

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among delightful homes, to the lower levels of the wooded Ar- 
royo Seco, up into the mountain canons or across the undulating 
valley, can tell the story. 

In its social life, Pasadena is almost ideal; churches, libraries, 
clubs and educational institutions occupy artistic homes of thei: 
own. There are fifteen churches in the city, the majority of them 
being remarkable for their beauty and proportions. The public 
library has a classic home of stone. The Throop Polytechnic In- 
stitute specializes in the department of manual training. The 
schools, public and private, employ some seventy-five instructors 
and are educating some 2500 young people. The social and liter- 
ary organizations are unusually worthy, both in the high plane of 
their aspirations and in their results. Pasadena is the home of lit- 
erature, of painting, and of all art, a city where great things 
should be accomplished. 

The suburbs to the south and east are encompassed with 
groves of citrus and deciduous fruits, and small fruits and vegeta- 
bles are also grown in abundance. Every year Pasadena ships 700 
or 800 carloads of fruits and vegetables, and says little about it. 

From Cape Town to Port Arthur the hotels of Pasadena 
are famous. Their excellent qualities, such as have made the 
Green and La Pintoresca so pleasant, fairly impel the tourist to 
the city. 

You may visit California and not see Pasadena — so may you 
tour Palestine and avoid Jerusalem. 




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The most famous of the mountain trips is that afforded 
i nwc ky the cable incline and electric railway up Mt. Lowe. 
LOWE From the Southern Pacific Company's handsome depot 
electric cars run via Altadena to Rubio Canon, where begins the 
great cable incline. In three-fifths of a mile distance you are 
lifted, tilted chairs maintaining your equilibrium, a perpendicular 
distance of over a quarter of a mile. A monster cable operated 
by electricity does the work. A safety cable is a concession to 
nervous people, unnecessary except as a confidence restorer. 
Echo Mountain is a good place to see from; a sky, cloud and 
earth panorama lies before you. The Swift Observatory and a 
good hotel divide interest in your immediate surroundings. 

over the Alpine divi- 



Upward again and 
sion, with its 3000- 
five mysterious 
the circular bridge, 
Tavern, 5000 feet 
ite camping place, 
You can see some 
some ocean, and 
Lowe, 1000 feet 
by bridle path, 
of wonderful 
canons and pine 
ever climbing, 
wander beneath 
can easily imagine 
ing the air hardly 

Los Angeles 
and 

Again leav- 
Track at Shorb, 
northward 
great vineyard, 
which — Sunny 
pily describes it, 
through the 
ranch. It is a 
main,this ranch, 
own railway 
own hotel, a 
forest, and all the 
ments of a well- 
try estate. It is a 
coaching ground, 
like drives often 
o-f a gleeful tally-ho 




and 
echo 



UP THE 
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foot gorge, across the 
rivers of the rocks and 
you reach Alpine 
above sealevel,afavor- 
with a good hotel, 
earth from here, 
no end of sky. Mt 
higher, is reached 
The whole is a trip 
views, through 
. forests, climbing, 
\ until stray clouds 
your feet, and you 
I that you are tread- 
below the stars. 

to Monrovia 
Duarte. 

ing the Inside 

the way lies 

through a 

the name of 

Slope — hap- 

and thence 

IB a 1 d w i n 

princely do- 

with its 

station, its 

miniature 

improve- 

keptcoun- 

favorite 

the aisle- 

the mirth 

incline. party. 





'"OH, WHAT A SHELL GAME ! " 

Two miles beyond Arcadia is the picturesque foot- 
riONROVIA hin c ity of Monrovia, with its seven churches, fine 
tourist hotel, public library, high school and other evidences of 
urban life. Half city and half country, its hundreds of acres of 
green groves clinging to the rising slopes present a pretty picture. 
Fine orange groves extend to and beyond Duarte, a neighboring 
colony of equal excellence a mile further east on the branch. 
nu a dtp? Duarte has won fame chiefly by the excellence of its 
DUAK navel oranges that have a habit of prize winning. 

The budded fruit and the seedlings, the old orchards and 
those new from the nursery, the different soils, climates and loca- 
tions give interesting variety to orange groves. 




4 RIVERSIDE CANAL— 1900. 



THE INSIDE TRACK. 

Los Angeles to San Bernardino, Riverside and Redlands. 

Another glancr at the map and you will note that the Inside 
Track, the Southern Pacific Company's local line extending east- 
ward from Los Angeles to Redlands, Riverside and San Bernar- 
dino, and including Alhambra, San Gabriel, Covina, Lordsburg, 
Pomona, Chino, Ontario, Colton and other communities, is like 




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AN OJLANGE TREE IN BLOOM. 

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a goodly branch laden with fruit. The line traverses first that 
fruit and flower garden, the San Gabriel valley, with branches to 
Pasadena and Duarte, then the beautiful valley of Pomona, thence 
through the broad sweep of San Bernardino valley, with its ram- 
parts of high mountains, and then to the southward the vale of 
Riverside. Properly, these are not separate valleys, as the term 
is generally accepted, but a good deal of local pride and some not 
very large rolling hills, that nowhere hide the high mountains to 
the north, are responsible. 

" Inside Track " has a special significance in the location of 
its stations, which are uptown everywhere, that is, in the business 
centers of the cities. An additional advantage is in the fact that 
the lines, being first constructed, pass through the best cultivated 
parts of the valleys. Generally in the geographical center of the 
valley, the passenger is just far enough from the mountains to 
view the highest ridges, no intervening foothills being able to 
hide them from such a vantage point. Thus their majesty is 
given its strongest effect. 

A flying arrow bearing the news, " The easy way to see South- 
ern California, " is the emblem of the Inside Track. Redlands at 
the tip, San Bernardino and Riverside at either barb, and Los 
Angeles at the feather, the directness of the line and the relative 
locations of the principal points are effectively shown, as well as 
the swift service. 

Use this arrow; you cannot miss the mark. 
In general the " Inside Track " includes some of the most 
attractive features of California, South of Tehachapi. Facing 
eastward, the snow-clad peaks of Mt. San Bernardino and Mt. 




THE ARROWHEAD AND ITS HOT SPRINGS. 

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San Gorgonio are seemingly your goal. Off to the left, after the 
green valley floor and its groups of hills, the foothills, up which 
venturesomely climb the orchards; then higher hills, and then the 
steep, abrupt ranges of the Sierra Madre and the San Bernardino 
mountains, with towering peaks and crests edged with pine for- 
ests. Cities, orchard environed, are here and there; now we cross 
a lowland, with a broad wash and a narrow stream, or some 
broad bench, gradually ascending as we go eastward. To the 
right the mountains are nearer akin to hills and more scattered, 
some lie blue in the haze of the horizon; others isolated and lower 
are near at hand. Everywhere is a display of color. On a win- 
ter's day, from the car window one may gaze over an alfalfa field 
of green, a narrow strip of sand and greasewood, perhaps a decid- 
uous fruit orchard, higher the deeper color of an orange grove, 
then the gold and brown of a granite wall, and higher still the 
whiteness of the mountains snow-mantled; beyond and above a 
lift of light blue sky, and surmounting all some great mass of 
cumulus, white-capped cloud. It is a view often given a passen- 
ger on the Inside Track, to whom width of valley and height of 
mountain wall display their greatest charms. 

Excursion tickets a*re on sale at the principal Southern Pa- 
cific Company offices, covering a trip over the Inside Track and 
permitting stopovers everywhere, at a rate of $4.10. With this 
ticket you should secure a local folder; then you are equipped for 
travel among the orange groves of the interior. 
a 1 hapirda Tracing the Inside Track by communities, after 
ALtlAntSKA leaving Shorb we pass Alhambra, a place of pleas- 
ant homes, beautiful drives and old groves that are classic. It is 
destined to be a great residence section. Beyond is San Gabriel, 
an old Spanish settlement and of great interest, for 

TARPIPI ^ ere at ^ e stat i° n ' s ver y d° or is one of the best 
uABKI preserved of the old missions, with a famous chime of 

bells. Historically the missions of Southern California are treated 
on a later page, and among them. San Gabriel is entitled to promi- 
nence. Time has treated it kindly. At the eastern end is an arch 
containing the chime of six bells, still calling devotees to service. 
Its towers saw no civilized dwelling place at their building, and 
the time-scarred wall and well-worn entrance speak of ancient 
years. The landmark of an earlier civilization with mission most 
peaceful, San Gabriel is worth a lingering inspection. 
/viomtr After San Gabriel are passed Rosemead, Savanna and 
mUNlfc, then Monte, where the Baptists founded their first 
Southern California church. It is in the " moist lands," has three 
creameries, and ships to an eager market large quantities of cauli- 
flower and other vegetables. From Bassett are two routes to Po- 
mona, the older via Puente, Lemon and Spadra, through a grain 
hay and oil country, and the newer to the northward through a 
rich horticultural district. The way to the north leads through 
the gardens of Vineland and Trwindale to Covina. 24 miles from 
Lo« Angeles. 



Covina is in the largest berry district in Southern Cali- 
COVINA f orn j a> but it is great not alone in small things. In 
orange shipments during the season of 1899- 1900 it ranked third 
in the state with some 850 carloads, and modestly says little either 
of that or of its large returns from deciduous fruits and agricul- 
ture. There is a growing suspicion that the good people of 
Covina are quietly getting rich without taking the outside world 
into their business confidence. It is acquiring metropolitan airs, 
and is destined to be one of the largest of the interior Southern 
California cities. 

Four miles farther east is San Dimas, a smaller 
SAN DlflAS edition of Covina. It possesses scenic advantages, 
including a romantic waterfall. On the material side prosperity 
is shown in a fine packing house, a sign of the times at all the 
fruit colony stations. 

Lordsburg is a Dunkard settlement with a new 
LUKUbKUKU broom air, neatness and thrift being evident 
everywhere. Sheer force of great advantages has added largely 
to its population in the last few years. A Dunkard college is 
maintained. These generous and honorable people are building 
an ideal colony. But the Gentile is not absent; his eager eye has 
noted Lordsburg's prosperity. The orchards of citrus and de- 
ciduous fruits and of walnuts are wonderfully productive — partly 
due, no doubt, to wonderful care. Large packing houses will be 
observed here as well as at Covina and San Dimas. 

The road leads through the midst of orange orchards that in 
the spring lend even to the flying train their fragrance. 
POMONA P° mona is at tne crossing of the ways. From the 
FOiuUNA west t be old line and the Covina route converge; to 
the east one line of the Inside Track detours through Chino, re- 
joining the more direct line at Ontario. Pomona has upwards of 
twenty-five square miles of orchards and small fruits. These 
orchards encompass the artistic homes of an intelligent and pros- 
perous people. There are 6000 people there now and the number 
will be doubled in ten years. The city has fifteen churches, ten 
schools, and a college that is a credit to the Coast. The moral 
atmosphere is just as splendid as the life-giving air that makes 
the city a health resort. Of course Pomona has such adjuncts of 
city civilization as electric lights, paved streets, good hotels, a 
splendid water supply (being constantly augmented), fine busi- 
ness blocks and a public library that would serve as a good excuse 
for young Pomonans growing up bespectacled like their Boston 
cousins. The climate, though, insures a clear eye. 

The horticultural importance of the city is attested by eight 
large packing houses, dealers in oranges, olives, apricots, peaches, 
etc., for which this goddess-favored city is famous. A cannery 
employs hundreds of people in the busy season. During the sea- 
son of 1899- 1900 the orange crop was worth over a half million 
dollars, and it was not the only item that figured in the bank ac- 




EUCLID AVENUE, ONTARIO. 

counts. Many fine residences have been and are being built, a 
new domestic water system has been completed and the city's 
importance as a railroad center established in the last few years. 

T Six miles east of Pomona is Ontario, known of old as 

ONTARIO ^g Model Colony. Its fruit orchards, principally of 
orange, lemon and olive, for a distance of seven miles to the foot- 
hills, presents a forest of green. Through them passes the beauti- 
ful boulevard, Euclid Avenue, though what that gentleman did to 
entitle him to so graceful a tribute has puzzled many a patient 
toiler at the Thirteen Fatal Books. Two hundred feet wide, the 
avenue cheerfully accommodates sidewalks, a double driveway, 
several rows of splendid shade trees, and an electric railway. 

Over seven of the nine miles of the avenue runs this scenic rail- 
way, and a five-cent fare will lift you from the 980 feet elevation at 
the Southern Pacific station to the half-mile elevation at the head 
of the avenue. It is a line of great interest, and famous for the 
gravity car of older days, when the patient mules that had plodded 
up the long incline found their reward while, with ears laid back, 
and mouths wide open, they drank in the scenery from a back 
platform, as passengers, on the down grade. 

Ontario is on the valley divide, and is an ideal fruit country. 
Two thousand acres of deciduous fruits in Blackburn's addition, 
south and east of town, have been added to the very large hold- 
ings to the north. The city, in its prosperity, smiles at two new, 



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big packing-houses, new churches, new business blocks, a new 
dormitory for girls at well-known Chaffey College (for you 
must know that every Southern California town is a center of 
education), and new houses too numerous for the local mathe- 
matician. The city shipped iooo carloads of fruit during the 
past season, and there is no wonder at it having three banks. It is 
almost unnecessary to mention the electric lights, sewer system, 
excellent schools, ten church organizations, and the other city 
signs. The mountains to the north of Pomona and Ontario, cul- 
minating in Mt. San Antonio, familiarly known as Old Baldy, are 
possessed of many charming summer retreats both in canons and 
at higher elevations. Excellent hunting and fishing may be had 
in the untrodden ways that lie beyond the habitat of the ordinary 
pleasure seeker. 

Five miles south of Ontario, on the southern side of the loop 
line, between Ontario and Pomona, is Chino. 

Chino is very different from its neighbors, and yet 
CHINO equally productive in its way, and a sweet way it has. 
For many years the Chino Rancho was one of the most produc- 
tive sections of California in the "damp belt," and its live-stock 
products were favorably known throughout the country. A few 
years ago it became the site of the pioneer experiment in beet- 
sugar raising in Southern California, an experiment so successful 
that the beet-sugar industry now overtops all others in Chino. In 
the busy summer season iooo people are in the field and the fac- 
tory, whence, in a season, are shipped several hundred carloads 
of sugar. A creamery and cheese-making plant have recently 
been added to the list of industries. 

fllfAiwnNfiA " ^ e Pl ace °* man y springs," noted for its fruits, 
CUCAiuUINUA a historic point and one of the first vine and wine 
centers. 

Rochester and Etiwanda are in the raisin district, and vast 
vineyards stretch away to the San Bernardino mountains. 

Declez winery and stone quarries, and Sansevain (good quail 
country hereabouts) are passed, and then Bloomington. 
ri nniwiwrmivi Bloomington is of growing importance as a 
cuuumirsuiurN f ru ; t C enter, with its olives and oranges. Near 
here hundreds of acres of canigre, a plant that grows wild in 
many parts of Southern California, are being cultivated. This 
plant remarkable for its tannin qualities, is the successor to the 
fast-disappearing bark that is gone with the forests of hemlock 
and oak. 

CO! TON Colton, fifty-eight miles from Los Angeles, is a rail- 
m u uy road center of importance. Here the Southern Pa- 
cific Company's line between Riverside and San Bernardino, re- 
cently the subject of great improvements and for which more 
are projected, crosses the main line of the Inside Track. Colton, 
besides being headquarters for many railroad men, has other ad- 
juncts of prosperity. A cannery gathers hundreds of hands from 

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over the valley in the season. Granite and marble quarries, and 
perhaps most important of all, cement works of large capacity at 
Slover mountain, employ many men. The Colton terrace 
oranges are at the top in market quotations. 

Eastward from Colton, the main line of the Inside Track spans 
the Santa Ana river, whose almost empty bed proclaims the theft 
of its mountain streams, passes superbly located Mound City, 
now becoming of importance as a fruit section, diverges from the 
Sunset route at Redlands Junction, and in a few minutes the pas- 
senger is whirled through orange groves up toward tall mountain 
tops until the business center of Redlands is reached. 

Almost at the eastern end of the Inside Track, 

REDLANDS under the brow Q f Mt gan Bernardino, lies Red- 
lands, a dozen years ago a barren red hillside; to-day a city of 
4000 people, with 8000 acres of citrus and 3000^ acres of deciduous 
fruits, and nurseries and land and water making orchards every 
minute. 

Along the foot of the mountains in an elevated yet protected 
position, it is the chosen winter home of many New Englanders. 
It is a city of magnificent views. Toward the west facing it is the 
lovely San Bernardino valley; at its back are the two highest 
peaks in Southern California, Mts. San Bernardino and San Gor- 
gonio; to the right the fertile foothills and mesas of Highlands 
and the intermediate country, extending across to the mountains 
to the north. To the left the city site slopes upward, culminating 
in a canon crest, where one may stand and look down as from 
the^ upper edge of a giant wall into deep San Gorgonio pass, a 
train perhaps winding through the defile; or turn to the north 
and view the glory of Redlands the exquisite. 

Canyon Crest is a park, better known as Smiley Heights, and 
renownedthe world over for its beauty. It beggars description. 
There is little use in trying to tell of two hundred acres of flower 
garden with a thousand varieties of trees and shrubs besides. 
The views, the wonderful drives, the lakes — you don't stop to 
count the flowers; it's enough to know that in trees there are 
forty varieties of eucalyptus, twenty of acacias, and fifteen of 
palms, and the tree catalogue hardly opened. A horned toad 
that a decade ago called this desert his home, would feel badly 
lost now. As for you, it is enough that you are there. 

Another characteristic feature of Redlands is the A. K. Smiley 
Public Library — built in the old mission style and set in a fine 
park — containing about 8000 volumes. It is the generous gift 
of Mr. A. K. Smiley to the city and its material worth alone is 
$40,000. 

Redlands has magnificent homes, excellent hotels and boule- 
vards that are an irresistible invitation to riding, bicycling and 
coaching. 

The city does not depend upon its wealthy eastern relations 

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for support. The fruit crop of 1898-9 yielded $868,000 in revenue, 
and the orchards are but infants yet. 

The city is electric lighted, paved with vitrified brick, and in 
the business section handsomely built with brick and stone, no 
wood being allowed. An electric line is in operation. The 
chief water supply is the great Bear Valley reservoir up in the 
San Bernardino mountains, and new sources of supply are being 
constantly developed. The building improvements for the 
past three years amount to $1,000,000. New homes in orchard 
settings are springing up everywhere. 

It is a striking metamorphosis accomplished by irrigation that 
a city worth at least a dozen million dollars, with all modern im- 
provements, has replaced a lonely hillside where fifteen years ago 
the coyote and the jack-rabbit could find no green to sport upon. 

From Redlands many points of interest in the mountains are 
reached, by stage, horseback or the philosophical burro, who has 
a soul above mountain heights and to whom no trail is too nar- 
row, no trodden way too precipitous — if he have but time. The 
ascent of snow-covered Mt. San Bernardino and its near neigh- 
bor, Mt. San Gorgonio (in the vernacular " Grayback " because 
of its snowy ridge) may be made with either San Bernardino or 
Redlands as starting-point, an interesting summer trip. 




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ACROSS REDLANDS CITY. 




FRUIT DRYING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 

Bear Valley has a good hotel and many other resorts have 
excellent, homelike accommodations. Fredalba Park is a crea- 
tion of Smiley Brothers to whom the world owes Canyon Crest 
Park, and there are many artistic summer homes up among the 
pines. In the winter the higher mountain ridges are deeply 
snow-covered and are deserted save by a few lumbermen, ranch- 
ers and reservoir men; but in the summer, camps are everywhere, 
the delightful temperature, the bracing atmosphere that keeps 
one dancing, the pine forests and the cold springs adding to the 
attractions of the mountain canons and the little valleys that are 
set in among the tops of towering walls, " sky-high." 

Every year the dwellers by the sea are appreciating more and 
more the value of a change of climate, such as is^ secured by a 
vacation excursion to the mountains; even as the inland inhabi- 
tants find the beneficial variation needed by a visit to the sea- 
shore. 

rt> a ptam -^rom Redlands the Inside Track climbs steadily past 
CKAFTON Eastberne and its ice factory to Crafton, a famous 
retreat half in the canon's embrace and a favorite place for pic- 
nickers. It is not only famous as a resort, but is also the site of 
the great power plant of the Southern California Power Company 
that makes the city of Los Angeles hum — and it's almost seventy 
miles away. It is noted, too, for its oranges, cherries and apples. 

Returning and facing for the first time to the west, the path is 
retrodden to Motor Junction only, three miles from Redlands, 
the Southern Pacific Company's motor affording rapid transit to 
the county seat, San Bernardino, through Old Mission. 
ni n MicQiriM Following the main avenue, the line passes in 
OLD MlbblON old Mission some of the oldest and best orange 
groves in Southern California. A rose hedge a half-mile long 
catches the eye with its stretch of beauty. The Santa Ana is again 
crossed, and then upward the road leads to San Bernardino. 



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THIRD STRKET, SAN BERNARDINO. 

Ten miles northwest of Redlands and sixty 
RpDivADniNin miles east of Los Angeles, on the broad slope 
BERNARDINO between the mountains of the same name and 
the Santa Ana River, in the heart of the valley, lies San Bernar- 
dino, county seat of the county of that name, reached from Colton 
via the Riverside branch and from Redlands via the motor line. 
It is a well-built city of broad streets, well paved, and with busi- 
ness blocks that would be a credit to a metropolis. It is the 
commercial and political center of the valley, and largely of the 
mining districts in and beyond the mountains to the north and 
east. It is the fountain city of Southern California, and through 
hundreds of artesian wells draws a pure water supply from cav- 
erns far below. Two wells recently struck are yielding unprece- 
dented volumes of water, a fortune to their owners and a boon to 
many a thirsty acre. San Bernardino is the business center of 
the large sawmill industry in the mountains, and the location of 
large railroad machine and car shops. It has a creamery, flour 
mill, planing mill, fruit packing establishment, foundry, and is 
surrounded by a rich fruit country. A $300,000 Court House and 
a $60,000 Hall of Records are among the public buildings. On the 
social side, the hospitable Arrowhead Club and many kindred or- 
ganizations help make life pleasant. An athletic park and a city pa- 
vilion, with a seating capacity of 2500, are among the notable pub- 
lic features. The usual rigmarole of public utilities, electric lights, 
gas, water works, an excellent public library, good hotels, street 
car lines (soon to be electrized) are other items in its public life. 
From San Bernardino the well-known Harlem Hot Springs 
are reached by the Highland Railroad, occupying the same sta- 
tion as the lines of the Southern Pacific Company. This resort, 



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with its pavilion and mud and plunge baths of hot mineral water, 
is acquiring fame as a health restorer, and for several years has 
been the favorite picnic place of two counties. 

Arrowhead Springs, a health resort of the Indians, and whose 
boiling waters are also disastrous to the ills that the white man is 
heir to, are six miles north of the city, on the mountain side, a 
great arrowhead blazoned on the face of the mountain, to be seen 
plainly for fifteen miles, pointing directly to the source of the 
baby geysers. San Bernardino is also the gateway to a charming 
string of mountain resorts, including Squirrel Inn, Little Bear 
Valley, Bear Valley, Fredalba Park, etc. 

In San Bernardino, as elsewhere, the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany has its station near neighbor to the liveliest business section. 

A branch line runs from San Bernardino south to Riverside, a 
distance of twelve miles, crossing the main line at Colton. Be- 
low Colton the line crosses the Santa Ana River, on a long 
bridge, and then close to the foothills, along great irrigating 
canals, passes Highgrove, formerly known as East Riverside. 
HifHronvP Highgrove is a pretty orange colony with a 
MlunUKtivc, promising business center. Thence to Riverside 
is almost a continuous orange grove, for we are now in the 
famous Riverside valley, the greatest orange growing section in 
the world. 

DivPDCinp ^ e c * ty °* ^ vers ^ e » political and business cen- 
KlVEKSlDb j- er f Riverside county, has no narrowing city 
walls, but is bounded only by the hills, the municipal limits con- 
fining fifty-six square miles, and every mile productive. This 
season's orange and lemon crop is about 3000 carloads, and it was 
as near an off year as years ever get in Riverside. Next season's 
output will be 6000 carloads — a conservative guess. It is not to 
be wondered at that the bank deposits, in this city of 8000 people, 
largely exceed $1,000,000, and that the actual property value is 
estimated to be over $18,000,000. About thirty-five square miles 
of Riverside are under irrigation, the Riverside Water Company, 
the Riverside Trust Company, and others, furnishing the water 
secured from mountain streams, and largely from artesian wells, 
in the San Bernardino valley. 

The business section of Riverside is in keeping with its hand- 
some surroundings. It owns its electric light plant, and has 
power to sell. The opera house is one of the finest in the State, 
the hotels are of a high standard, and many of its business blocks 
of metropolitan appearance. The Y. M. C. A. possesses a hand- 
some home. Riverside schools are wisely managed and progress- 
ive, with the artistic homes that are a distinctive feature of Cali- 
fornia educational facilities. There are many churches, and no 
saloons. The streets are paved, and the city is intersected with 
fine boulevards. 

Greatest of all the avenues is Magnolia Avenue, a seven mile 
stretch of lovely double roadway, jeweled with the slender euca- 

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MAGNOLIA AVENUE. 

lyptus, the spreading palm, the drooping pepper, and the graceful 
magnolia, set off with a bewildering ^ profusion of flowers; 
through fragrant orange groves, white with blossom, or mayhap 
golden with fruit. To the right and left are the great orange 
groves, and half hidden may be seen some ideal home, foliage 
encompassed. Not ostentation, but art; not arrogance, but in- 
telligence; not bitter competition, but discerning co-operation; 
you can see Truth well written along this wonderful way of 
homes. An electric car line has just been completed down the 
avenue, starting passengers on their trip from the Southern Pa- 
cific station. At night, when the avenue is illuminated by elec- 
tricity, and, seemingly, the stars twinkle in the tree-tops, drifting 
down the avenue means indeed a happy, midsummer's night dream. 

The sister avenue, Victoria, is hardly less interesting. 

The Southern Pacific Company's depot in Riverside, within 
hallooing distance of the busiest business corner, is not excelled 
anywhere as a model station and equalled perhaps only by the 
Company's stations at Redlands and Pasadena. 

Returning from Riverside, the homeward trip is made via the 
route described, taking the opposite side of the loop from Onta- 
rio west. The other side of the car will unveil new wonders to 
the eye. 

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THE MISSIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 




THE MISSIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 




Los Angeles to Santa Ana, Whittier, Tustin, and Los 

Alamitos* 

South of Los Angeles in the county of that name, and the 
neighboring county of Orange, is a richly productive section that 
raises pretty nearly everything un- 
der the sun except tornadoes, floods, 
snow storms, sun strokes and torrid 
nights which are not indigenous to 
California, and which no weather 
prophet has been able successfully 
to import. 

LeavingtheArcade De- 
DOWNEY potj t h e great city sta- 
tion of the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany, reached from all parts of the 
city by electric lines, the trip is 
southward through the hog and 
hominy land, past Florence and Vin- 
vale to Downey, an enterprising 
town surrounded by an agricultural 
section that would make any far- 
mer's heart glad. Potatoes, walnuts, vegetables, small fruits, 
corn, etc., are profitable crops, and the " lay of the land " is 
everywhere indicated by the cackling hen. 

From Studebaker, fifteen miles from Los Angeles, a branch 
extends to Whittier through a country that is proving particu- 
larly well adapted to the cultivation of fruits and walnuts. 

The Quaker colony of Southern California, Whit- 
WnlTTIER tier, is, like Redlands, an example of marvelous 
growth. Ten years ago simply a vast barley field, now it is tree- 
clothed and hundreds of homes make this an ideal foothill city. 
The Whittier college of the Society of Friends, is a very success- 
ful institution. If thee would find a place more beautiful than 
this, thee'd search far. Of interest is the state reformatory insti- 
tution, where the wayward youth are guided back into the proper 
path. Whittier possesses city improvements and wealth; every 
year it ships several hundred carloads of fruits, vegetables and 
walnuts. Its cannery is one of the largest in the State. 

Returning to the Santa Ana line we pass the thriv- 
NUkWALK ing village of Norwalk. Ostriches of all stages are 
here from those who have just been shelled out to the bald- 
headed old gentleman who, however, is not a bit stiff-necked. 
There are two ostrich farms near Norwalk. 

ma OADk r Buena Park is decidedly in the cow country. It 
BUEINA PARK h as a condensed milk manufactory that expends 
$15,000 per month, using thousands of gallons daily. A beautiful 
avenue is one of its greatest attractions. 



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Anaheim is forty-three years old, but has the per- 
ANAHEin ennial youth of every Southern California colony. 
A colony of Germans, possessing good judgment, chose it in 1857 
as a good place to live — and that good judgment has never been 
disputed. Few cities are more prosperous and its 2500 people not 
only possess, but own, a large area of cultivated country, orange 
groves, vineyards, walnuts and small fruits. The city has fine 
avenues, electric lights, street cars and other public utilities. 
There are several points of historic interest in the neighborhood. 
Los Alamitos is nine miles from Anaheim, on a 
A?AiwiTnc branchy line recently built.^ A sheep range a few 
ALAMITOS years since, it is now the site of a large beet sugar 
factory with a capacity of 700 tons of beets per day. It has a 
school-house, of course, a church, two hotels and several stores. 
It is the railroad station for Anaheim Landing and Bolsa-Chico 
Bay, one of the new seaside resorts. 

Orange has fine avenues, an excellent public library, 
ORANGE an( j a miniature park in a plaza, but its chief distinc- 
tion is its ideal homes and their lovely surroundings. Three miles 
from Santa Ana, its sources of commercial prosperity are those of 
its neighbor. 

Santa Ana is thirty-four miles from Los Angeles, and 
a ni a ls ^ e metro P ons > commercial and political, of Orange 

ANA county. It is a modern city with fine business build- 

ings, paved streets, electric lights, four banks and an opera house 
that would be a credit to any place on the Coast. Its street-car 
system connects it with Orange. Prosperity is very evident in 
Santa Ana, and that is not to be wondered at, for the surrounding 
county of Orange is one of the richest sections of California, with 
a wonderful variety of profitable products. That explains the four 
banks. A great many new houses are being built, several new 
business blocks have just been completed, and there is every pros- 
pect that the year 1901 will be one of unexamp 1 ed growth in both 
city and county. A new canning establishment, that is capable of 
turning out 50,000 cases of Orange county products every day is 
now in operation. A fine new courthouse will soon overshadow 
the fine new jail, built for objectionable visitors. Santa Ana has a 
public park worth considerable pride, a good public library, fine 
schools, an enterprising chamber of commerce, an Ebell society 
for the ladies, and a Sunset club for the gentlemen. The northern 
part of the city is noted for its beautiful homes. The county has 
been generously favored by Mr. Irvine in its picturesque park in 
Santiago canyon. Nearby is the fifty-acre tract of the Santa Ana 
Golf Club, also a gift of the same gentleman. The city is the 
junction of the Santa Ana and Newport branch with the main line. 
NPWPODT Newport is a famous place for those who love the 
INbWPURI ocean for its own sake and not because of beach 
brass bands or merry-go-rounds. The man with the broad- 
brimmed hat and the long fishing pole, with a family who like 

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to be summering along a delightful beach, comes here. It has a 
sand peninsula with quiet water on one side and tumbling break- 
ers on the other, a delightful bit of headland scenery, and a bay 
perfect for bathing and boating. Its wharf and hotels are all 
attractive. A branch of the railroad extends to Smeltzers and the 
famous peat lands, where are grown the hundreds of carloads of 
celery that find their way to the eastern market every year. Very 
productive are these peat lands, and grow almost anything in 
abundance save large timber that have " too heavy a step." Every 
tourist should make a visit to this interesting section, where he 
can produce an earthquake " all by himself." The trip from New- 
port to Smeltzers is one of much scenic beauty. 
t tim Tustin is the center of one of the older fruit districts of 
TUSTIN j-hg s ou th, and has many magnificent groves. The 
town is the center of a community well known for its wealth and 
refinement. Nearby is the famous San Joaquin ranch of a hun- 
dred thousand undivided acres that extends from the mountains 
to the sea. There are good roads in all this country, a peculiar 
rock formation known as " Tustin cement " being responsible for 
many of them. 




HOME OF MOD JESK A— ORANGE COUNTY 
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The Watering Places of Southern California. 

No country in the world is possessed of more pleasing seaside 
resorts than California, South of Tehachapi. South of the thirty- 
fifth parallel of latitude, its semi-tropic sea permits of surf-bathing 
the year round; few storms disturb the placid waters of this part 
of the Pacific, hemmed in by a chain of islands that themselves 
possess large possibilities as pleasure places. The coast, pictur- 
esque, abrupt and frowning for many miles of its length has 
nevertheless beaches that for beauty and magnitude are not ex- 
celled anywhere. The fame of Santa Barbara is world-wide; and 
Santa Monica, Long Beach, Terminal Island, Santa Catalina 
Island, Newport, and other resorts, all easy of access from Los 
Angeles, will before long have more than one country dancing 
attendance upon their surf lines in the summer days. 

The improvements of these resorts are notable; fine hotels, 
boarding houses, hundreds of furnished cottages and tents, pleas- 
ure wharves, pavilions, band stands, modern bath-houses and 
good restaurants are among the permanent attractions; usually 
the attractions are not confined to the beach, a thriving city with 
all modern conveniences and a surrounding well-settled country 
with pleasant drives and a background of mountains, are added. 

The Southern Pacific Company maintains quick and inexpen- 
sive service of numerous trains between all these points and Los 
Angeles, where close connections are made for the interior. 



"for fun only"— the wharf at long beach. 

To Long Beach, Terminal Island and San Pedro* 

From Los Angeles a branch of the Southern Pacific Company 
extends southerly through Compton — famous for its ton of 
mn/iDTniv cneese a day, * ne prosperity of its people, its fine 
COMPiON sc hools and excellent water supply — down to the 
sea, forking at Thenard, one line extending to Long Beach and 
the other to San Pedro and Terminal Island. 

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WHEN THE SURF ROLLS IN AT LONG BEACH. 

There was never anyone dissatisfied with Long 
LONG BEACH Beach. It is a summer resort just plenty good 
enough, and it's a place to live the year round with great comfort. 
There is no use in trying to catalogue its attractions. There is a 
most magnificent stretch of smooth sand for the waves to tumble 
over. You can gather shells, drive about a country that is one 
vast park, go fishing, boating or yachting, try a surf swim or the 
plunge baths built over the ocean, or idle the hours away on the 
beach. Long Beach is the summer meeting place of the Chautau- 
quans. It is the summer home too of thousands of Californians 
who wish to enjoy an outing amid surroundings moral, educa- 
tional, and artistic. The city possesses electric lights, a fine 
pavilion, a city hall, handsome parks, and many new brick busi- 
ness blocks. There will be other people there besides you this 
summer; over fifteen hundred cottages have been built during 
the past three seasons. 

- A|SI ppnon From Thenard the other branch extends to San 
z>Ari PtiDKU Pedro, now a place of great activity. The govern- 
ment has begun the expenditure of a million and a half dollars in 
creating here a free harbor. When completed it will, with Port 
Los Angeles, give California, South of Tehachapi, first-class open 
doors to the commerce of the world. San Pedro is also assuming 
importance as a commercial center. Oysters, sardines and lob- 
sters^ are successful aquatic crops that make the epicure cast a 
longing eye at the bay. Pt. Fermin lighthouse is worthy of a visit. 
Terminal Island, reached by the excellent ferry 
service of the Southern Pacific Company from San 
Pedro, and enjoying the same rates from Los An- 
geles and the interior as do Santa Monica, San Pedro, and Long 
Beach, though a comparatively new resort, is widely popular, 
with its quiet waters, good bathing, boating, and fishing. It has 
a beautiful promenade and a fine pleasure wharf. 



TERMINAL 
ISLAND 



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Near neighbor to San Pedro on Wilmington 
WILfllNGTON Bay> - lt i s f historical interest. It is the center 
of a great grain country, and its people, though disinclined to 
brass bands in business affairs, are prosperous. 

From San Pedro, steamers plow the Pacific (in 

SANTA the summer daily or twice a day) on a twenty- 

CATAL1NA three mile trip to Santa Catalina Island, the great 

island resort of the Pacific Coast, and but three and a half 

hours from Los Angeles. 

The fame of the island runs now where man can read. 
Avalon Bay and the Isthmus are ideal resorts. The twenty- 
two miles of island, mountain, cliff, valley, forest, peninsula, pos- 
sess a magnificent scenic stage road, wonderful views, fine goat 
and quail hunting, winding trails, deep gorges, and water-falls 
among the attractions of the interior; yet perhaps the larger 
number of visitors find most enjoyment in or upon the water. 
It is a summer isle, with the surf beating on the rocky cliffs of 
the south and west coasts, and with the ocean sleeping in glassy 
stillness along the sandy and pebbly beaches to the north and east. 

In the bay of Avalon, children paddle about unattended in 
boats that they cannot upset. Indeed, everybody goes rowing 
and bathing here. There is no surf and no wind, and so clear is 
the water that all the wonderful vegetable and animal life on the 
bottom of the ocean may be seen through the bottom of a glass- 
bottomed boat, as if the water were of crystal. Seals (sea-lions), 
unmolested, clamber on the rocks. It is a wonderful fishing- 
ground, and on a summer morning a fleet of rowboats and naph- 
tha launches may be seen outward bound in search of the giant 
sea bass (reaching a weight of 500 pounds), the leaping tuna 
(gamest of all fish), the frolicsome and plentiful yellowtail, the 
albicore, the barracuda, that philosopher's fish, the grouper, the 
white and rock bass, the halibut, and other denizens of the salty 
deep. An expert with the rifle hunts the flying-fish. Bathing 
in the still water is delightful, while trips around the island by 
steamer or launch and to the isthmus are interesting incidents. 

In the height of the summer season, there are often 5000 or 
6000 people on Catalina Island. There are a number of good 
hotels, but the tent villages, with their macadamized streets, and 
with rows of shade trees, are very attractive, and here the crowd 
lives. The furnished tents are rented very cheaply, and, at the 
delicacy stores, dinners hot from the range, may be purchased 
less expensively than an indulgence in home cooking. Illumina- 
tions, nightly concerts in a fine pavilion, followed by dancing, a 
skating rink, and the unconventional social life that a respectable 
company makes possible, make life very pleasant upon the Island. 

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WHERE UNCLE SAM ENTERTAINS THE VETERANS. 



Los Angeles to Soldiers' Home, Santa Monica, and Port 

Los Angeles* 

Still another line of the Southern Pacific Company extends 
westward from Los Angeles to Santa Monica, a distance of nine- 
teen miles, and thence, along the coast, to the terminus of the 
great Port Los Angeles wharf, three miles farther. 
iimivpp<;itv University station is in one of the finest resi- 
UINIVbKSllY dence sections of Los Angeles, and, as its name 
indicates, is the home of the University of Southern California. 
Many fine homes are being built here. 

A mile from Home Junction, on a loop line, and 
HnJiR sixteen miles from Los Angeles, is the home that 

MOriE a government that would nourish the wonted fire 

of patriotism, maintains for its disabled volunteer soldiers. Two 
thousand veterans, heroes of the faded blue, are here at home; 
the great group of fine buildings, the extensive grounds, with 
their arboreal and floral wealth, the model farm of nearly 500 
acres, and, above all, the veterans themselves, make this square 
mile a place of intense interest. Street car service through a 
beautiful country, connects the home with Santa Monica, and 
with the excellent suburban service of the Southern Pacific 
Company, enables the sightseer to visit both places in one day. 

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ON THE BEACH. 



SANTA 



Joyous thousands have hailed Santa 
Queen of the Surf. Made easy of access 



Monica as 
~~ess by the 
nurslCA suburban train service to Los Angeles, more fun has 
been found in its breakers, more laughter heard along its fine 
beach, more good fish dinners had at the Hotel Arcadia, more 
happy gallops, and more flying spins along its magnificent ave- 
nues obtained, than at any other beach in the southland. 

The Hotel Arcadia faces the Pacific Ocean and gives the sun 
one last occasion for a smile before he retires for the evening. 
The Arcadia has a superb setting of semi-tropic wealth on the 
land side. There is no hotel anywhere more modern or more 
attractive. The new fish grill-room, with its walls strung with 
the reminders of many a hard fought battle with rod and reel, 
would make any fish proud to be there. 

Yachting, rowing, riding, tennis, golf, bicycling, driving, 
beach-combing, fishing, bathing, loafing — these are a few of the 
things that make every hour at Santa Monica worth a week of 
reality at home, and in the matter of recollection, a year. The 
curling surf says " swim;" the wharf, with poles sticking out all 
over it like pins in a cushion, importunes " fish;" beautiful ave- 
nues through a country worthy of its magnificent trees plead a 



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POLO TEAM, SANTA MONICA. 



trip on foot or otherwise; the dining-room and the sea air will 
make anyone continuously hungry; the ocean, white-dotted with 
sails, plainly invites you to fly; golf and other games are a con- 
stant taunt to your ambition; and the easy sand and the warm 
sunshine, with the gentle air of the Pacific, just compel you to 
loaf and dream. 

The North Beach bath-house is one of the most enjoyable 
bathing places on the coast for those who want a bath a little 
warmer or a trifle different from that afforded by the frolicsome 
old ocean. There is a large, warm-water plunge and private tub 
baths. The new 1400-foot pleasure wharf is a really fine place 
from which to catch fish and a tanned face. 

Santa Monica is more than a resort; it is a city with fine 
business buildings, beautiful homes, shady streets, electric cars, 
gas, and electric lights. 




THE HOTEL ARCADIA. 
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NORTH BEACH BATH HOUSE, SANTA MONICA. 

Riding along the edge of the surf to Santa 
PORT Monica Canyon, a pleasant retreat for pic- 

LOS ANGELES nickers, and thence out into the ocean, the 
WHARF en d f t h e f am ous Port Los Angeles wharf, 

4620 feet long, is reached. Almost a mile from land an excellent 
view of Santa Monica Bay and the ocean is obtained. More big 
fish and more big fish stories are captured from the end of this 
wharf than from any other on the coast. 

There is a good restaurant on the wharf and you may have 
your fish cooked on the spot if you are of the opinion that the 
fisherman is worthy of his reward. The immense coal bunkers 
into which the great coal carrying ships empty themselves, are 
worthy of inspection. 

The trip between Santa Monica and the end of the Port Los 
Angeles wharf is very interesting, and no one should leave 
Santa Monica without taking it. 

Near the land terminus of the wharf is 
SANTA nONICA] Santa Monica Canon, a favorite place for 
CANYON picnickers, a pretty canon with fine water 

and lots of shade. 



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PORT LOS ANGELES WHARF. 




THE PALMS OF FERNANDO. 

Los Angeles to Santa Barbara* 

Northward from Los Angeles the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany's line strikes boldly between the Sierra Madre and San Ra- 
fael ranges, and turning to the left from Saugus, between beetling 
cliffs and the ocean, forms the famous shore line to Santa 
Barbara. 

Burbank is the center of enough rich land to sup- 
oUKBANK p 0r j. a c j t y Agriculture means prosperity here- 
abouts. 

fHATQwnDTH Chatsworth Park, the terminus of a branch 

dadk" from Burbank, in a few months to be on the 

PARK main line. A glance at the map will show 

how the new through line will appear when the work on the gap 

between Oxnard and Chatsworth Park, now being carried on, is 

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completed. The contract has been let for the last great tunnel 
necessary to complete the cut-off. This country is of the good 
old-fashioned agricultural kind that produces many bushels to 
the acre, and the crop returns fill many carloads. 

FFPNANno * n t ^ ie nort ^ enc * °* tm; San Fernando valley is 
rtiKiNArsuU t j ie town of Fernando, proud of an old mission 
and a new mission too. The old affair is being looked after by 
the Landmark Club; the new one is beng cared for by Fer- 
nando's confident and energetic citizens. Orange, lemon, and 
olive groves are profitably in evidence. There is one little olive 
grove of 1800 acres planted a short time ago that is worthy of 
attention. Artesian wells furnish good water. 

Mission San Fernando de Espafia is near the station, and is 
noted both for its own beauty and the loveliness of its surround- 
ings. The historic structure with its great arches, tile-paved 
floor, its long cloister and ruined fountain, bring vividly to mind 
the self-sacrificing toil of generations gone. 

Newhall has two industries that are factors in 
IN bW HALL prosperity; oil wells and placer gold mines, both 
of which are adding to the jolly appearance of its inhabitants. 
It has one oil well that produces pure petroleum, claimed to be 
a specific for rheumatism. 

Saugus is the junction point of the Santa Barbara 
bAUuUS branch and the main line. To the north on the main 
line are in succession Lang, Ravenna, Acton, Vincent, Palm- 
dale, Lancaster, Mojave, and Tehachapi. 

Acton is becoming prominent as a health resort, its 
ACTON altitude, equable temperature, dry climate, and inter- 
esting surroundings making it a first-class place wherein to 
laugh and grow fat. At no place in California can tourists see 
with less trouble gold mines in operation than here. There are 
about twenty gold mines, one extending 750 feet underground, 
and many of them very productive. 

Acton is the gateway to the new resort on Mt. Gleason, des- 
tined to be one of the great popular pleasure places on the coast 
From its 6000-foot elevation may be seen mountain, desert, val- 
ley, ocean. Trees up there are 200 feet high; but if you do not 
care for climbing, hunting, exploring, and quartz-collecting are 
enjoyable pastimes. 

Mojave is the junction of the Southern Pacific Com- 
nOJAVEi pany and the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad, and is a rail- 
road center of some importance. A large mining country is tribu- 
tary to it, and recent developments promise well for Mojave. 

Westward the Santa Barbara branch passes 
CAMULOS through picturesque Camulos, ever dear to the 
lovers of literature as the home of " Ramona." Here by the 
Santa Clara river with the mountains of San Fernando on the 
south, and to the north the gentle foothills, lived Ramona. The 
corrals, vineyards and orchards, and the old chapel, still stand 

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THE HOME OF RAMONA. 

as of old, vivid proof of the power of word-picturing possessed 
by Helen Hunt Jackson. 

At Piru all kinds of fruit are at home, and many a val- 
PIRU uable orchard bears evidence by the carload of the value 
of good land and perfect climate. 

Fillmore and more oil, near the mouth of the 
FILLnORE interesting Sespe Canyon, a delightful hunting 
(Sespe Canyon) an( j nsn ing country. Here the busy bee gathers 
sweetness from untold acres of blossom and boxes it for the 
lazy man to sweeten his taste upon. Fillmore is the center 
of the citrus belt of Ventura county, with a fine irrigating system. 
daiti a ^ moves the wheels of commerce smoothly 
SANTA PAULA j n Santa Paula, and the growth of the town 
has been steady since the development of the oil industry. The 
famous Sulphur Mountain Springs are near here. 

T Saticoy is noted for its twenty acres of sparkling 

bAIlCOY springs and its artesian wells; it is a deciduous fruit 
center, and walnuts and beans rival each other in profit. 

MfiMTAi vn 9 ne °* t ^ le P rmc ip a l shipping points on the coast 
MUINIALrVO n ne> j s Montalvo, surrounded by great orchards 
of fruit, apricots and walnuts being extensively grown. It is 
the junction of the new five-mile branch to Oxnard. 
OYNAPn * n March, 1898, simply a stretch of productive agri- 
UXINAKI) cultural land; to-day a rapidly growing town with 
1500 or more inhabitants, hotels, water works, good streets and 
sidewalks, newspaper, banks, business buildings, and many com- 
fortable homes : that is Oxnard. In a few months it will be on a 
main line, the gap between Oxnard and Chatsworth Park soon 
to be spanned with steel rails. 

An immense beet-sugar factory, valued at $2,000,000, and with 
a capacity of 2000 tons of beets per day, and thousands of acres of 
sugar beets, are the cause of Oxnard' s prosperity. Three and a 
half miles from Hueneme, on the coast, it has a perfect climate. 

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SAN 



They know beans here, and grow beans, 

i tda t0 °- Not in S arden patches, but in broad 
BUbNAVfclNIUKA fields that stre tch away to the mountains- 
beans by the carload, beans by the trainload, beans that are 
excellent boiled in primitive hunter's fashion, or baked in ap- 
proved Boston style. 

San Buenaventura is the county town of Ventura county, 
and is a pretty, energetic, seaside city of 3000 people. It is the 
junction of the Ojai valley branch with the Santa Barbara line. 
The country is noted, not only for its beans, but as well, for the 







BEANS IN THE POD— SPANISH BAYONET— YOUNG ORANGE GROVE- 
ARTESIAN WELL— THE HUM OF INDUSTRY. 



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DRYING PAMPAS PLUMES. 

variety and quality of its truits; a cannery has just been built, and 
the business section improved by the addition of fine new blocks. 
Mission San Buenaventura, southernmost of the Channel mis- 
sions, is in a state of good preservation. It is in the city, within 
five minutes' walk of the railroad station. 

MHDnHACC ^ tr *P through the fertile Ojai valley to NordhofT 
NORDnOFF } s entrancing. It is a park-like country, with 
trees hidden with climbing ivy, a country of beautiful views. 
Nordhoff is in a mountain encompassed oasis, a beauty pano- 
rama of mountains all about it. With its added perfect climate, 
good fishing and hunting, and neighboring hot springs, it is a 
most pleasant vacation headquarters. 




READY FOR HARVEST. 



T Only three miles from NordhofT are Matilija 

hot qddintc Hot Springs, a wonderfully good place in 
nui sfkiinu^ which to get well if you are ill. Accommoda- 
tions are excellent, including a fine hotel, electric lights, tele- 
phone, etc. 

Few trips by rail are more interesting than that along the 
shore line to Santa Barbara. On the one hand cliffs, castled and 
domed, and on the other, within the easy pitch of a stone, the 
pellucid waters of the Santa Barbara channel. Like blue clouds 
upon the horizon lie the islands. With every turn of nature's 
picturesque pathway, comes some new bit of entrancing scenery 
— a glimpse of the sunlit ocean, or of some half-hidden Eden. 
rADDiNiTPDiA Seventeen miles beyond Ventura is Carpin- 
CAKPiNTEKIA teria, an old Spanish settlement in the land of 
the fig-tree and vine. Here is the largest grapevine in the world, 
a century old, and now some eight feet in circumference at its 
base. Five miles more of delightful ride and Summerland is 
reached. 

QiinnPDi Ai\in En J°y in g fame for man y y ears as a ^sort 
sui ii ltKLArNU pi acCj it now in the light of a singular devel- 
opment promises great commercial importance. At no other 
place in the world are oil wells bored in the ocean and oil taken 
from the depths. At last oil and water seemingly are near to 



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FLOWER FESTIVAL. 



mingling. Making the ocean yield up its oil a quarter of a mile 
from land is a teat unique enough to be worth a journey. 

Facing the beauty-reflecting waters of the Santa 
radrada Barbara channel, with the islands lending their 
BARBARA gracefulness to the horizon, with as fine a beach as 
ever was laved by the tide, with an ocean boulevard that follows 
the surf for miles in an unbroken reach of smooth asphaltum, 
with beautiful canon drives and trails that lead you to the moun- 
tain tops and unfold the glories of a Promised Land; with a mag- 
nificent highway of the mountains, whence valley, city, chan- 
nel, islands, a picture that only Nature could paint, give the eye 
a greater value; with a background of softly rounded slopes and 
rugged hills; with valleys rich in the vegetation of the semi- 
tropics and an ocean that fades away shimmering to the sky; 
with homes so lovely and estates so attractive as to be in them- 
selves worthy of a long pilgrimage; with a historic mission to 
lend it the glamor of romance; with a climate unexcelled and in- 
deed with sea and mountain and sky all combined by Nature in 
an effort to reach perfection, Santa Barbara is superb, enchant- 
ing. 

Santa Barbara is a handsome city with electric cars, finely 
paved streets and boulevards, good schools including kindergar- 
tens and Sloyd schools, a public library that public intelligence 
has made almost uniquely fine in its character, and hotels that 
have been catering to critical guests until they have nothing to 
learn in the art of entertaining. 

The surf bathing is unexcelled, there being no undertow and 
the beach being without a superior. Six miles from the city are 
fine sulphur springs to which the stage runs daily through a 



beautiful country of trees and flowers. Yachting, bathing, 
boating, driving, riding, bicycling, golf and tennis are only a few 
of many favorite recreations. 

The city has tapped a mountain for its water supply. It has 
all the conveniences of a modern metropolis, and many such 
unique features as a town clock with Westminster chimes. 

Only its comparative inaccessibility has prevented Santa Bar- 
bara from becoming a greater city and a Mecca for idealists: 
Brook Farm could hardly have been anything but a success 
here. An active Board of Trade is now at work in its behalf. 
and the completion of the Southern Pacific Company's coast 
line, this coming winter (1900-1901) will give to Santa Barbara 
the prominence that this city by the sea deserves. 

Mission Santa Barbara Virgen y Martyr still serves the work 
to which it was consecrated when peace had but come to the 
American republic, and its wise men were struggling with the 
question of a constitution. The church is of dressed stone, with 
massive walls heavily buttressed. The two-story towers yet 
shelter the chime of bells, and the famous garden with its foun- 
tain, so often pictured, still scents the air with fragrance. The 
mission has been carefully preserved, and to-day is one of the 
most interesting and imposing of them all. It is a lighthouse of 
hope from the sea, a beautiful landmark in white relief against 
the surrounding green of the hill tops, its double towers in 
stately dignity overlooking their pleasant surroundings as they 
did two generations ago. Back of Santa Barbara is the lovely 
vale of Montecito, most beautiful of all valleys. 

From Santa Barbara the line runs through park-like estates 
to Elwood, the present terminus of the shore line, and remarka- 
ble for its fine orchards of olives, oranges, and other fruits. 




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Beyond* 








A 


SEA. OF SALT. 



Any description of California South of Tehachapi without 
reference to that vast country east of the mountain wall that 
encircles the better known sections, would indeed be like a ban- 
quet without a dessert. 

Vaguely described as " The Desert," the wilderness between 
the mountains and the Colorado river has many points of inter- 
est all its own. It is a desert with the treasures of King Solo- 
mon's Mines; it is a desert with more salt of the earth than any 
other in the world; it is a desert with oases that have the atmo- 
sphere of life; it is a desert with mountains miles high and basins 
two hundred feet below the surf of the Pacific; it is a desert of 
sand and yet of luxuriant vegetation; it is a desert so unique in 
both animal and vegetable life as to be of endless interest. 

Here lives the sand terrapin, almost a counterpart of the 
common mud-turtle, but an absolute teetotaler. Water to hirn 
is an unknown quantity that no algebraist could make him ap- 
preciate the value of. Yet the turtle weed that grows in baked 
sand in the fierce direct and refracted rays of the sun, with mois- 
ture neither in air nor land, gathers within its leaf a drop of 
water. Tiny rabbits frisk about underneath the mesquite tree — 
a tree, by the way, that in the desert, springing from one stem, 
buries its limbs in the sand, whence it grows again, forming an 
almost impenetrable chaparral. Miniature quail, too, live in this 
arid land. Long reefs that may be traced for miles mark sea 
level on the sides of basins, shells that were once of the ocean 
lying amid a wilderness of sand. Cacti of fantastic forms, vol- 
canic creations of curious shapes, bare, gaunt mountains, levels 
of seemingly endless sand, with which the winds play, and where 
sudden thunder-storms break violently — these are of the desert. 
On the crest of San Gorgonio Pass, between two 
BbAU/ViOINl mountain walls, lies Beaumont, a pretty, health- 
ful town, with a fine fruit and grain country tributary to it. 

On the desert side of the crest, and yet not of the 
BArNNlNU desert, is Banning, a little city that enjoys great 
prosperity, chiefly on account of its productive acres, and partly 
by reason of its picturesque location and well-earned reputation 

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iiiiilii 

PALM CANYON. 



as a health resort. It is claimed that the fruit crop during the 
past season yielded several hundred dollars revenue for every 
inhabitant of the colony. 

pai n cDDiNnc Palm S P rin S s is not Properly an oasis, per- 
kal.ii ^fKinua haps, for it is on the edge of the desert (five 
miles from the station), and not in the midst thereof; yet in its 
great palms, its verdure, and its wonderful waters, it is possessed 
of the attractions of a perfect oasis. The great San Jacinto 
mountains tower over it, and lend to it the breath of the forest. 
No fog ever enveloped this region of clear air, and the clouds 
that growl along the mountain tops are chiefly impressive in 
their scenic effects. There is little rain at Palm Springs, the 
mountain sending tribute in a plentiful supply of pure water. 
The mineral hot spring is remarkable for its curative properties. 
There is no finer natural sanatorium than Palm Valley. 

Of the string of stations between Palm Springs and 
INDIO Yuma, Indio is one of the most interesting. It is below 
sea level, in the heart of the desert, and is a wonderful example 
of newly created oasis. A quarter of a mile below the surface of 
burning sand, is a subterranean stream that, tapped by artesian 

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PALM SPRINGS. 



wells, has given to Indio the bloom of tropical life. It is a cot- 
tage resort, and has all modern conveniences. Those afflicted 
with lung troubles find its climate very beneficial. 

Salton is at the bottom of a sea that was. Two hun- 
5ALTON d re d an d sixty-three feet below the face of the ocean, 
it has a heavy, dry atmosphere, of great value in pulmonary 
trouble. The evaporation of an inland sea has left here an im- 
mense body of practically pure salt that is mined and refined, 
and used throughout the West. 

• _ Ogilby is the station for an important mining district, 

OuILBY Hedges, a large mining camp, being but a few miles 
away. This section has bright prospects which are in a fair way 
of realization. 

Yuma is the gateway to California South of Tehachapi 
YUMA Q f t h e Sunset Route, and as such though in Arizona, is 
entitled to mention. The Southern Pacific Company has com- 
pleted a new bridge across the Colorado river. If you desire 
to study the aborigine on his native heath, there is no better 
place than Yuma. The territorial penitentiary, and an Indian 
school, are prominent features. A decision by the Supreme 
Court in favor of the government has resulted in throwing 
open a large body of fertile land, five miles south of Yuma, to 
settlers, and Yuma is accordingly expectant. 



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INDIO. 



The Hotels of Southern California* 

Los Angeles Hotels* 

Arcade Depot Hotel, E Arcade Depot 

Hoffman House, A 421 North Main 

Hollenbeck Hotel, A or E S. W. cor. Spring & Second 

Hotel Broadway, A or E 429 South Broadway- 
Hotel Lindsay, A or E 430 South Main 

Hotel Vincent, A or E 615 South Broadway 

Hotel Ramona, A or E S. W. cor. Spring & Third 

Hotel Van Nuys, A or E N. W. cor. Main & Fourth 

Nadeau Hotel, A or E S. W. cor. Spring & First 

Natick House, A or E S. W. cor. Main & First 

New United States, E S. E. cor. Main & Requena 

St. Elmo Hotel, E 243 North Main 

Westminster Hotel, A or E N. E. cor. Main & Fourth 

A American plan. E European plan. 

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4 FEW RESORT HOTELS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 




A FEW RESORT HOTELS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



Family and Tourist Hotels. 

American Plan. 

Abbotsford Inn S. W. cor. Hope & Eighth 

Bellevue Terrace N. W. cor. West Sixth & Pearl 

Brunswick Hotel S. E. cor. Hill & Sixth 

California Hotel N. E. cor. Hill & Second 

Catalina Hotel 439 South Broadway- 
Devon Inn Tenth & Broadway 

Gray Gables S. E. cor. Hill & Seventh 

Hamilton 521 South Olive 

Hotel Aberdeen Broadway & Temple 

Hotel Ammidon 195 1 South Grand Ave 

Hotel Argyle. N. E. cor. Olive & Second 

Hotel Baltimore 427 West Seventh 

Hotel Gray 274 South Main 

Hotel Lillie 534 South Hill 

Hotel Lincoln S. W. cor. Hill & Second 

Hotel Livingston 635 South Hill 

Hotel Mt. Pleasant Cor. Boyle Ave. & First 

Hotel West Lake 720 Westlake Ave 

Richelieu 142 Grand Ave 

Santa Clara 324 West Third 

The Albany S. W. cor. Main & Fourth 

The Belmont 425 Temple 

The Berke 145 Grand Ave 

The Clarendon 408 South Hill 

The Ellis 315 North Broadway 

The Locke N. W. cor. Hill & Second 

The Melrose 130 South Grand Ave 

The Rochester , 1012 Temple 

The Rossmore 416 West Sixth 

Toltec 601 Temple 

Virginia 539 South Olive 

Family and Tourist Rooming Houses. 
European Plan. 

Columbia 614 South Broadway 

Crocker 212 South Broadway 

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Delaware 53454 South Broadway 

Grand Pacific 43454 South Spring 

Hafen House 344 South Hill 

Hotel Corona 227 West Seventh 

Hotel Monterey 135 South Main 

Hotel Portland 444^ South Spring 

Hotel Shasta 505^ South Main 

Hotel Stanford..., 350 South Hill 

Hotel Vogel 312 West Seventh 

Hotel Wingham 109/i South Broadway 

Johnson 123 East Fourth 

Lawrence 459 South Olive 

Park Place N. E. cor. Hill & Fifth 

Pleasanton 530 Temple 

Primrose 413 West Second 

Sentous Hotel N. E. cor. Fifth & Grand 

The Aldina South Hill St 

The Bancroft 727 South Broadway 

The Burlington 235 East Second 

The Carling 422 West Second 

The Colonade South Hill St 

The Irving 220 South Hill 

The Kaweah 254 South Broadway 

The Laurel 721 South Broadway 

The Louise 520 South Broadway 

The Narragansett 423 South Broadway 

The Orland 436 South Hill 

The Savoy 328 West Fourth 

The Seymour 316^ West Second 

The Spencer 316^ West Third 

The Windsor 410 West Second 

The Yorke N. E. cor. Main & Second 

Wiley 517 South Broadway 

Miramar.— The Miramar. Ontario.— The Ontario. 

PASADENA. 

Carlton Colorado St 

Hotel Green Raymond Ave 

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PASADENA.— Cont'd. 

l,2l Pintoresca Washington & Fair Oaks Ave 

Los Angeles House West Colorado St 

Mitchell Fair Oaks Ave. & Vineyard St 

Various family and tourist hotels of lesser size. 

POMONA. 

Keller House Pacific Hotel 

SAN BERNARDINO. 

Southern Stewart New St. Charles 

SANTA BARBARA. 

Arlington State & Victoria 

Mascarel State & Cola 

Raffour House De la Guerra Plaza 

Morris House State & Haley 

SANTA MONICA. 

Hotel Arcadia Ocean Ave 

Hotel Atlanta Ocean Ave 

Hotel Clarendon Utah Ave 

Hotel Santa Monica Ocean Ave 

ROSSMORE. 

Richelieu. 

REDLANDS. 

Baker House Water & Orange 

Casa Loma Orange St. & Colton Ave 

Hotel Redlands., State & Fourth 

RIVERSIDE. 

Bordwell Hotel Main & Ninth 

Glenwood Tavern Main & Seventh 

Holywood Hotel Market & Eighth 

Magnolia Hotel Main St 

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SOME STATISTICS. 



Acton 

Alexis 

Alhainbra * 

Almansor Street 

Almond * 

Anaheim 

Arcadia 

Aurant 

Azusa Avenue 



X 



Baldwin Avenue 

Banning. 

Bartons 

Bassett 

Beaumont 

Benedict 

Bergamot 

Bicknell 

Bituma 

Bloomington * 

Brookshurst 

Brookside 

Buckhorn 

Buena Park X 

Buena Vista Avenue . . 
Burbank X 



Cabazon 

Camulos * 

Canoga 

Carmenita 

Carpinteria * 

Casitas * 

Castaic * 

Cerritos * 

Chapman 

Charter Oak * 

Chatsworth Park 

Chino X 



Distance 
From 

Los 
Angeles. 



57 

76 

9 

9 

22 

25 
16 

3 
23 

14 
87 
66 
16 
81 

30 
16 
70 
86 
54 
23 
65 
52 
21 

19 
11 

93 
48 

27 

18 

100 



Elevation 



37 
14 
13 
26 

30 
45 



2670 

2189 

425 



164 



364 



2317 



2560 



1634 
1083' 
1310 



558 

1779 

733 



716 



Siugle 
Trip 
Fare. 



$1 95 
2 30 
25 
25 
70 
80 

45 
10 
70 

40 
2 65 

1 95 
50 

2 45 
95 
35 
10 
60 
60 
75 
95 
55 
60 
60 
35 

2 95 
1 45 

1 10 
60 

3 o° 

2 80 

1 15 

35 

35 

80 

1 25 

1 50 



Round 
Trip 

10-Day 
Fare. 



5o 45 
"65 



*Popnlation. 
Census 1900. 



65 



50 



85 
391 



50 
60 



I,l82 



130 
1,456 



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Number. 



500 



102 
346 



179 



995 



3,048 



391 



391 

85 

162 

285 



208 
1,920 



50 



20 



38 



59 



20 
59 



25 



36 



49 



50 



54 



49 
25 



* Population is conservatively estimated on basis of school census for 1900. 
When population shown is less than 500 or district is suburban in character, 
usually the population of the district immediately tributary to station and 
net of town proper is given. When data are incomplete population it not siren . 

x Townships. 



some; statistics. 



Cienega 

Colton 

Compton « . . 

Covina 

Crafton 

Cucamonga 



Declez .... 
Dominguez 

Downey 

Dry Camp . 

Duarte 

Dundee . . . 



East Alhambra . . 
Bast San Gabriel 

Eastberne 

El Casco 

El Modena 

Elwood , 

Encino 



Fernando . . . 
Fillmore — 

Florence 

Fulton Wells 



Garfield Avenue 

Garnsey 

Gloster 

Goleta 

Grand Avenue . . 



Highgrove 

Harold 

Home Junction 

Hopevale 

Honey 

Humphreys . . . 

Idlewild 

Indio 

Irwindale 

Ivy 

x Townships. 



Distance 

From 

Los 

Angeles. 



7 
58 
10 

23 
70 

43 

49 

12 

11 

121 

19 
14 

10 
11 
68 
73 
35 
122 
21 

21 

57 

5 

16 

8 

15 

96 

118 

4 

55 
67 

14 

115 

36 

40 

67 

130 

21 

10 



Elevation 



965 



560 

1870 

952 

1022 



163 
552 



380 



1874 



1066 



2810 



— 20 



69 



Single 
Tnp 
Fare. 


$0 25 


1 75 


35 


70 


2 05 


1 30 


1 45 


35 


35 


3 90 
60 


45 


30 


30 


2 05 


2 20 


1 00 


3 7o 
85 


65 


1 70 


20 


40 


25 
60 


3 50 
3 60 

on 



85 

30 

35 
50 
15 
35 



1 90 

3 90 

65 

35 



Round 

Trip 

10-Day 

Fare. 



$0 50 



50 
95 



50 



25 



35 



50 



50 



Population. 
(Jensus 1900. 



276 

1,309 
1,683 
1,328 
478 
1,193 



See Page 
Number. 



25 
40 
22 

29 

25 



4,458 



644 



531 



500 

387 
468 



350 



200 



25 



36 
17 



29 



57 



50 
5i 
36 



H 



3i 
44 



60 
20 



soivlb: statistics. 



Kester 



Los Angeles . . . 
Lake Vineyard 

Lancaster 

Lang 

Lankershim . . . 

Lemon . 

Lerma 

Long Beach . . . 

Lordsburg 

Los Alamitos . . 

Los Nietos 

Lynwood 



Macneil 

Main Street 

Marlboro 

McPherson 

Mentone 

Mirafl ores 

Miramar 

Mojave 

Monrovia 

Montalvo * 

Monte 

Montecito * 

Mound City 

Mt. Lowe 

Myoma 



Newhall * 

Newport * 

Nordhoff * 

North Alhambra 

North San Gabriel 

Norwalk * 



Ogilby 

Old Mission . . 

Ontario 

Orange 

Ortega 

X Townships. 



Distance 

From 

Los 

Angeles. 



16 



10 
78 
44 
13 
26 
20 
22 
29 
35 
17 
9 

11 

3i 
30 

34 

70 

27 

107 

102 

18 

78 

14 

108 

62 



125 

30 
43 
99 
9 
12 

15 

233 

67 

39 

30 

104 



Elevation 



293 



2350 
1682 



516 



1024 



2751 
518 



286 



I055 
6100 



1265 



354 



980 



Single 
Trip 
Fare. 



$0 65 



30 

2 75 

1 45 

55 

80 

35 
35 
95 
1 10 
40 

30 

45 
1 00 

95 

1 00 

2 05 
90 

3 15 
3 75 

50 

2 35 
40 

3 25 

1 85 



3 90 
90 



3 i° 
25 
30 
45 

10 00 

1 90 

1 20 

95 

3 15 



Round 
Trip 

10-Day 
Fare. 



$0 55 



50 
50 



50 



75 



45 
55 



Population. 
Census 1900. 



See Page 
Number. 



102,479 



2,252 



253 
1,749 



1,205 
426 



640 



442 
400 
402 



1,178 



700 
2,805 
I,2l6 

170 



50 
50 



20 



41 
22 

38 



50 

17 

51 
20 

27 
16 



50 
38 
53 



36 

61 
29 
23 

38 



70 



SOME STATISTICS. 



Oxnard * 

Pacoima * 

Palmdale * 

Palm Springs 

Pasadena 

Patata 

Piru X 

Pomona 

Port Ivos Angeles 

Puente 

Ravenna 

Redlands 

Redlands Junction 

Reseda 

Rimlon 

Riverside (incorp. area) 

Rochester 

Rosamond 

Roscoe 

Rosemead 

Ruddock 

Russ 

Salton 

San Bernardino 

San Buenaventura 

San Dimas 

San Gabriel X 

San Gabriel Winery . . . 

San Marino 

San Pedro 

Sansevain 

Santa Ana 

Santa Barbara 

Santa Monica 

Santa Monica Canyon . 

Santa Paula X 

Saticoy. . ., X 

Saugus 

x Townships. 



Distance 

From 

Los 

Angeles. 



83 

19 
69 

107 

IO 

8 

49 
33 
20 
20 



54 
66 

64 

22 

114 

66 

45 
89 

15 
11 

25 

48 



155 
62 

83 
27 
10 
6 
11 
22 
50 
32 
no 

17 
19 
67 
74 
32 



Elevation 



1007 

2658 

550 

829 



857 
323 

2262 
I350 
1137 



875 
2315 



263 
1075 



902 
409 



1060 
135 



286 



1159 



7i 



Single 
Trip 
Fare. 



#2 60 



60 
40 
75 
25 
30 
50 
00 

35 
60 

85 
05 
90 
90 
90 
75 
35 
20 

45 
35 
75 
65 



5 15 

1 75 

2 50 
85 
30 
25 
30 
35 

1 50 

1 00 

3 35 
35 
35 

2 00 
2 25 
1 00 



Round 
Trip 

10-Day 
Fare. 



$0 25 



50 



25 
55 
50 



50 
5o 



Population. 
Census 1900. 



80 
85 



9,H7 



161 
5,526 



4,797 



7,973 
55 



6,150 
2,470 



2,501 



1,787 



4,933 
6,587 
3,o57 



3,583 
1,163 



See Page 
Number. 



51 



50 
60 

14 



51 
22 

47 
20 



50 

27 

27 



31 
25 



20 



61 
30 
52 
22 
20 



4i 
25 
38 
56 
45 
47 
5i 
5i 
50 



SOME STATISTICS. 



Savanna 

Sea Cliff 

Sepulveda 

Serena 

Sespe * 

Shorb 

Soldiers' Home * 

South Ktiwanda ...... 

South Pasadena 

Spadra 

Studebaker 

Summerland i# '.* 

Sunny Slope 

Tejunga * 

Thenard 

The Palms * 

Tropico * 

Tunnel 

Tustin * 

University * 

Vernondale * 

Vincent 

Vineland * 

Vinvale 

Volcano Springs 

Walters 

Wanda 

Watsons 

West Alhambra 

WestGlendale .* 

White Water 

Whittier 

Wilmington . . X 

Winthrop 

Yuma X 

X Townships. 



Distance 

From 

Los 

Angeles. 



12 

93 

9 
103 

60 

7 
10 

47 
8 

30 

14 

105 

12 

16 
18 
12 
6 
26 
38 



3 

63 
20 

9 
179 

143 

32 

16 

8 

8 

102 

20 

20 

4 

249 



Elevation 



296 

461 

450 
459 



705 



837 



428 
140 1 



3211 



225 



460 

1126 

239 



140 



Single 

Trip 

Fare. 



5o 40 

2 80 

30 

3 05 

1 80 
20 

35 
1 40 

25 
90 
40 
3 15 
35 

50 

35* 

35 

20 

80 

1 00 

10 

15 

2 15' 
65 
35 



45 
00 

35 
25 
25 
40 
40 
35 
15 



10 75 



Round 
Trip 

10-Day 
Fare. 



$0 25 
50 



25 



55 



50 
50 



50 

35 



50 



Population. 
Censns 1900. 



See Page 
Number. 



238 



I,OOI 



425 



75 



558 
425 



1,178 
1,182 



304 



187 



357 



i,59° 
1,196 



593 



72 



The Old Missions of Southern California* 

These monuments of a century past are so conveniently located 
near the railroads that to pass them by were in the tourist inexcus- 
able. For easy reference, brief mention is made of each. Visitors 
should read the interesting articles appearing upon this subject in 
Sunset Magazine (published by the Southern Pacific Company), 
beginning in November, 1898. 

The first of California missions. Father Junipero 
MISSION Serra, whose faith conquered an empire in California, 

SAN DIEGO established it on July 1, 1769. The building is in a 
fair state of preservation. 

First visited July 31, 1769, by Father Juan 
mission san Crespa, and founded two years later 

Gabriel archangel (September 8, 1771) by Fathers Somero 
and Cambon. It is well preserved and adjoins the Southern 
Pacific station. 

Preparations were begun on April 30, 1775, 
mission SAN by Father Lasuen for its founding, but 

juan capistrano trouble at San Diego caused operations to 
be suspended and it was not until November 1, 1776, that Father 
Junipero Serra unearthed the bells and rang out the chimes that 
marked the establishment of Mission San Juan Capistrano. An 
earthquake in 181 2 partly destroyed the mission and the walls have 
not been rebuilt. 

Near here were the first baptisms in California. 
mission The mission was begun June 13, 1798, by Father 

SAN luis rey Lasuen. It is still used for religious and educa- 
tional purposes. Reached from Oceanside. 

This well preserved mission, one of 
mission san the most interesting of them all, is 

Fernando de espana within an easy walk of the Fernando 
station of the Southern Pacific Company. It was founded in 1797 
by Father Lasuen. 

This, the most southern of channel missions, 
mission san was established March 31, 1782, and a stone 

Buenaventura church completed in 1809. It is in the city and 
but a short walk from the station. 

It was founded December 4, 1786, 
mission santa Barbara by Father Lasuen, but the site had 
virgen Y martyr been surve yed in 1769 by Father 

Crespa. In 1820 the new church, just as it now stands, was con- 
secrated with impressive ceremonies. The mission has been care- 
fully preserved. 

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